At that point, the ratio of
shelter killing per 1,000 people will usually be below 2.0, a target that many jurisdictions have already reached.
Not exact matches
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Since its founding, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals
killed in America's
shelters from 17 million
per year to 4 million.
This no
kill philosophy for me came to a head in 1995 when I pitched it to a local group who thought I was half mad, then at a big
shelter who hired me to make them no
kill but had all kinds of problems with the extra $ 75,000
per year that it cost, even though the community seemed more than happy to pay it.
But Winograd's argument overlooked that the San Francisco
shelters continued to
kill far fewer animals
per 1,000 human residents than those of any of the cities he named.
Within a year San Francisco became the first U.S. city whose
shelters killed fewer than five animals
per 1,000 human residents.
It is estimated that 5,000,000 dogs
per year are
killed in
shelters.
Since its founding in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals
killed in
shelters nationwide from 17 million
per year to about 2 million.
In consequence, about 90 % of the dogs in the U.S. were mongrels, and about six million surplus puppies
per year were among the eight million dogs
per year
killed by animal
shelters.
This amounts to a staggering 85 % reduction in
killing since the 1970s.2 We have reached a nationwide pet
shelter death rate averaging just 1.2 %
per population, effectively a «no
kill» rate.
People like you who are dedicated to saving the lives of every homeless dog and cat, until «two million
per year
killed in our nation's
shelters» becomes «none, and never again.»
Of the No
Kill shelters I've studied, the ones that have intake
per 1000 people of 40 or 50 or more generally seem to use transports a lot, or adopt animals to people outside of their own jurisdiction, in order to get to a 90 % or better live release rate.
Since its founding in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals
killed in American
shelters from 17 million
per year to an estimated 4 million.
With no experience in
shelter management he took the animal
shelter, in Seagoville, TX from
killing over 50 animals
per...
Founded in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals
killed in
shelters nationwide from 17 million
per year to about two million.
In the last 30 years, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals
killed in
shelters nationwide from 17 million
per year to about 4 million.
Since its founding in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals
killed in American
shelters from 17 million
per year to about 4 million.
Prior to the 1970s, the few
shelters that existed became overrun by strays, and euthanasia rates peaked at 100 cats and dogs
killed per 1,000 people.
What we do know, from the survey data that follows, is that U.S. animal
shelter killing is down to about 2.7 million
per year, including about 1.4 million cats (53 %) and 1.3 million dogs (47 %).
U.S. animal
shelters are now
killing fewer cats and dogs than at any time in the past 60 years ---- nearly 300,000 fewer in the most recent fiscal year than just one year earlier, and just 8.6
per 1,000 Americans, the lowest ratio on record ---- but is the recent dramatic progress really saving animal lives?
First, that calculation requires information (including how the
shelter counts animals in foster care, and the no -
kill status of receiving organizations for all transfers) that most
shelters do not or will not provide, short of a formal record request, and I don't have time to do hundreds of record requests
per year.
volunteers would go to the city
shelter every night holding a list of the animals scheduled to be
killed the next morning — an average of 40
per day.
Over 80,000 animals in Greater Atlanta
shelters are
killed EVERY year — more than 200
per day.
Our group transports, on average, 300 dogs
per month to our receiving rescues (all no -
kill shelters and organizations) or to their new family.
$ 10
per month for one year pays for a behavioral boot camp for three dogs that may make the difference between a family keeping a dog or surrendering to a
kill shelter for behavioral issues;
Nonetheless, the advent of high - volume neuter / return has held the toll of cats
killed in
shelters during the first 15 years of the 21st century to about two million
per year.
Since its founding, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals
killed in
shelters from 17 million
per year to 4 million.
And, since many dogs in
shelters are cast - offs from people who purchased them in pet stores or online, banning retail sales helps reduce the number of animals who enter the nation's
shelters and, consequently, the number being
killed (currently more than 4,100 dogs and cats
per day) in our nation's
shelters.
In San Mateo County, California,
shelter killing went from about 70
per thousand people in 1970 to less than 10
per thousand people in the year 2000.
Texas
kills an estimated 232,000
shelter pets
per year and this Texas «rescue group» is buying pregnant dogs from breeders at auctions in Missouri?
ASPCA spends at least $ 1 Million
per year to lobby politicians like Amy Paulin, so that
shelter animals can be
killed immediately, instead of spending $ 1 million to save them.
According to The Humane Society of the United States we are currently
killing over 400 cats
per hour at the municipal
shelter level in the United States.